Morning journal and courier., 1887-02-26
B0YC0TTING is ILLEGAL.
THE COURIER SUSTAINED.

n Free Country and People Have Yet
| Their Just Rights Sustained by the
| Law.
The Supreme court of Connecticut yester
| day affirmed the decision of the Superior
| court for New Haven county in the famous
case of the JOURNAL AND COURIER against
the boycotters. The following dispatch was
received last night:
| hartford, Ct, Feb. 25.-The Supreme court to-
day confirmed the decision of the Superior court of
| New Haven, finding Glidden, the walking delegate
| and others who have tried to enforce a boycott
| against the New Haven JOURNAL COURIER,
guilty of conspiracy
The important character of the decision
will be recognized by the legal fraternity in
its purely legal point, of view and its i'm
portance in deciding practically that this is a
free country and that boycotting will not be
| tolerated in free America especially where it
| seeks under false colors to tyrannize and
1 destroy the just right of others. The his
tory of the attempt to boycott the COURIER is
| we'll known to the public but the leading
features of the case and the subsequent legal
proceedings, which have resulted in SO thor
| ough vindicaticn of the COURIER in its po-
| sition, are as follows: In March last the boy
cotters, who were chiefly confined to the
membership of the Typographical union,
grew exceedingly arrogant and dictatorial.
| They had, after boycott of months, forced
the News to surrender and obey their be-
| hests. They now assailed the COURIER. The
COURIER deded them. They threatened the
COURIER and finally, flushed with their sue
| cess with the News, sent an insulting demand
that the COURIER surrender within forty
eight hours or take boycott, which they
promised would be even more stringent than
that with which they had favored the News.
The COURIER paid no attention to the outra-
geous demand. And what did the demand
mean? It was not that the COURIER should
pay higher wages. The COURIER was
then paying the highest prices for labor. 1t
was demand that the COURIER discharge
long tried and faithful printers-yield their
places to such men as the Typographical
union should see fit to name. Such dicta-
ton was sublime impudence. The employer
was not to be allowed to exercise his right
as to deciding who should be employed. The
boycotters would have forced deserving men
out of employment and forced themselves
into concerns employ. Their purpose was
prevent them from obtaining employment at
their trade in every part of the land. Men
with families were to be turned out into the
street to starve. Such was the outrage which |
the boycotters sought to perpetrate in the |
name of labor in free country. Had the |
poycotters had particle of right |
or justice in their demand they /
might have had some support. But |
the New Haven public was indignant, and on |
appeal from the COURIER grand and for
midable array of the business men of the |
city publicly condemned the demands of the |
boycotters and pledged their support to the |
COURIER. The boycotters, emboldened by
their success over the News and with the |
great labor agitation then prevailing all over
the country, thought to compel the COURIER |
to submit. The COURIER, however, struck |
right out from the shoulder, and as soon as |
boycotting began hailed the boycotters before 1
the courts. The COURIER appealed to the |
law, and the law has sustained it. The law 1
has also established precedent which will |
be of great Importance in future cases /
of like nature. Glidden, the walking |
delegate was first arrested; then Mulcahey, |
Mcnamara and Busche. The COURIER nailed |
the boycotters as fast as they showed their |
heads in overt acts against the COURIER.
Several CAGES were made against them, each |
on different basis, in the endeavor to stop |
them, and in each case the City court decided |
against boycotting while the Superior court |
issued an injunction. Ali the cases were i
appealed on demurrers. Then came the Il
trial of the four conspirators before the Su-
perior court, and suffice it to say that after a
long and thorough hearing, and despite
the adverse charge of Judge Stoddard,
the jury of twelve men honest and true, found |
three of the accused guilty every
count. The case was then appealed to the
Supreme court with the result as above The |
defense confidently hoped that the law of
would prove not clear and explicit
enough to cover the cases, but it seems that I
there is law and justice yet in our good old |
State to meet tyrannical and outrageous |
attacks upon the rights and business of our
citizens.
REASONS BY JUDGE CARPENTER.
Especial to the JOURNAL AND CoURIER1
HARTFORD, Feb. 25.-The Supreme court sustains 4
The judgment of the lower court in the CoURIER's l
case against the boycotters Reasons by Carpenter.
opinion NOT yet out. CoURANT. 1
A Free Man.
Yesterday ex-Cashier William Roath, for
merly of the Shetucket bank, Norwich,
walked out of State prison once more free
man, his term of imprisonment having ex-
pired. His sentence was for four years, but
it was committed to two by the President.
His wife is housekeeper at the Wuaregan |
House, having been obliged to support her
self during the imprisonment of her husband.
Roath is forty-fve years of age, with plenty
Of time before him to redeem his former good |
name. He has one child, living with the
mother. His father lives in Preston and two |
brothers reside in Norwich
REAL ESTATE.
A $4,000 Sale Yesterday to j. w. s.
Peck-A New Block to be Erected.
Yesterday the property on State street